Nick Gibbs
@nickgibbs.bsky.social
Staring into the future of automotive. Writing for Automotive News Europe, Autocar and other quality outlets.
Man. Drought likely caused by climate change lowers river levels, forcing closure of nuclear power plants and cutting electricity to car plants making mostly combustion engine cars.
Automotive News Europe @autonewseurope.bsky.social · 2d agoFord, Dacia halt Romania plants as energy crisis forces production cuts
The shadow business secretary spoke at the UK carmakers’ assoc conference recently saying Tories would scrap ZEV mandate entirely and align emissions with the US. So the party that introduced it would now be happy to strand all EV investments made in last 15 years. Party of business!
James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 4w agoA sad and not a little shameful day for a once serious party. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
UK sales figures for June: Electric cars accounted for 30% of new registrations, up 38% on June 2025, and over double the figure for June 2024 (NewAutomotive).
Well. The last Victorian is dead. Off to discover the afterlife is all jukeboxes and social media. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sam Smith's brewery boss Humphrey Smith dies aged 81
Humphrey Smith had been at the helm of the Tadcaster brewer since the 1980s.
bbc.co.uk
Feels like we’re reaching the “Levi 501s smuggled into Leningrad in the luggage of an Aeroflot pilot” stage of American automotive consumerism.
Tough life being Polestar. Treated as though Chinese in US and banned. Suffering like a European in China and ignored. www.reuters.com/business/aut...
US denies Polestar authorization to sell vehicles in latest strike against China-made EVs
Electric-vehicle maker Polestar said on Thursday that the U.S. did not grant it authorization to sell vehicles in the country from model year 2027 onwards, effectively banning it from selling cars i...
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As one of these people since boyhood it’s more like a curse. Probably stemming from extreme boredom in on car journeys as a kid.
Nemorous@nemorous.bsky.social · last mo.Favorite Tweets @eizebasa.baby
Amphijeep! Never heard of it. Amphicar yes but not the go-even-more-anywhere version. Anyway this one is for sale on FB www.facebook.com/share/1GvCXn...
Ukraine forcing Russia to pivot to EVs because of petrol shortages would be quite funny. China happy to facilitate!
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 2mo ago🚗👀 Queue at a gas station in Crimea…
RIP Rupert Mannion, the oiliest of oily bastards and made utterly memorable by Head
Abigail Nussbaum@abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 2mo agoOh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sizeable hike in EV and PHEV sales in the UK for May, mirroring other European countries. Hybrid sales static and losing share, oddly. Must dig into that when I see more figures!
Chery to build cars in Nissan’s Sunderland. The world is rearranging, lets hope in a way that protects Sunderland workers! Cherys in Barcelona (ex Nissan) are largely built from kits.
Rather than have European auto execs quaking, this news will do the opposite: finally MG will have to compete with a European cost base rather than a Chinese one.
Automotive News Europe @autonewseurope.bsky.social · 2mo agoChina’s MG to open first European factory in Spain, with 2028 start date
LEDs were a game changer in cars too. Still lots of the game to be changed though. Eg trucks driving in India at night without lights to save fuel
Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn 2000, car headlights consumed a million barrels of oil a day, claims Jean-Baptiste Fressoz in the book More and More and More. The alternator charging the lead-acid battery reduces fuel efficiency between 0.5% and 4% and that rises to a hit of 20% when the air conditioning is on.
Great story giving background on the insane numbers of the Mk2 Prius on the streets of Mongolia, which will be apparent to any car nerd watching Race Across the World www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/toyota-...
Asia’s EVolution: How Mongolia became a dumping ground for Japan’s hybrid electric vehicles
Over the decade, Mongolia has been flooded with cheap, end-of-life hybrid electric vehicles (EVs) from Japan. The final instalment of a CNA series on Asia’s EVs looks at how the country could be turni...
channelnewsasia.com
Countering that stoopid Ram Rumblebee 770hp pickup with this. Available from Alibaba for £4k www.alibaba.com/product-deta...
Mind blowing really that the only ‘legacy’ global car market on that chart is… Toyota. And growing fast!
Felix Hamer • electricfelix@electricfelix.eurosky.social · 3mo agothe BEV ranking for April 2026, the European or American mind might not comprehend ;-) #alwaysbecharging nitter.net/thinkercar/s...
Charley never got round to the subject of Aston Martins then (or maybe it was past Trump’s nap time at that point)
David Henig@davidheniguk.bsky.social · 3mo agoAssuming he means whisky, good for Scottish exports, but there never should have been tariffs in the first place as producers on both sides don't want them. And who put them there in the first place...?
Must be the Warwick Acoustics electrostatic speaker system, first to use it. Nice bit of British innovation!
@auto-express.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe most luxurious, advanced and exclusive Range Rover ever has a car stereo to blow your mind...>> buff.ly/ovSy8qa
Excuse me @ashinchina.bsky.social Kevin posting signs from factory bog walls in China surely means it’s now acceptable practice so can I get my blacklist lifted
Kevin Williams@gaytonausa.bsky.social · 4mo agoXiaomi has a lot of jokey-jokes on its campus and I find it endearing. this is at the urinal at its auto manufacturing plant just outside of Beijing, reminding you to stand close so you don’t piss on the floor
